This book by long time Apple engineering manager, as well as startup employee, Michael Lopp is a guide to how to manage geeks. That wasn’t really what I was expecting — which is sort of the inverse. I was hoping for a book about how to be a geek who has to deal with management. This book helps with that, by offering the inverse perspective, but I’d still like to see a book from my direction.
The book is well written, in a conversational and sometimes profane manner (a comment I see others make about his other book “Managing Humans”). I think that’s ok in this context, where it feels as if Michael is having a personal conversation with you the reader. An overly formal tone here would cause the content to be much more boring, and its already dry enough.
I’m not sure I agree with everything said in the book, but the first half resonated especially strongly with me.
[isbn: 9780596155407;0596155409]